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[PATCH] gitweb: safely output binary files for 'blob_plain' action

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2006, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID
<200606171332.15591.jnareb@gmail.com>

gitweb tries now to output correct Content-Type header for 'blob_plain' action; for now text/plain for text files, appropriate image MIME type for *.png, *.gif and *.jpg/*.jpeg files, and application/octet-stream for other binary files.

Introduced new configuration variables: $default_blob_plain_mimetype and $default_text_plain_charset (only 'utf-8' is guaranteed to work for the latter).

binmode changed to ':raw' in git_blob_plain for output of non-text files.
---
 gitweb/gitweb.cgi |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
index 9d902b7..b37ec50 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
@@ -39,12 +39,16 @@ # html text to include at home page
 my $home_text =		"indextext.html";
 
 # URI of default stylesheet
-my $stylesheet = 	"gitweb.css";
+my $stylesheet =	"gitweb.css";
 
 # source of projects list
 #my $projects_list =	$projectroot;
 my $projects_list =	"index/index.aux";
 
+# default blob_plain mimetype and default charset for text/plain blob
+my $default_blob_plain_mimetype = 'text/plain';
+my $default_text_plain_charset  = 'utf-8';	# can be undefined
+
 # input validation and dispatch
 my $action = $cgi->param('a');
 if (defined $action) {
@@ -1354,15 +1358,46 @@ sub git_blob {
 	git_footer_html();
 }
 
+sub git_blob_plain_mimetype {
+	my $fd = shift;
+	my $filename = shift;
+
+	# just in case
+	return $default_blob_plain_mimetype unless $fd;
+
+	if (-T $fd) {
+		return 'text/plain' .
+		       ($default_text_plain_charset ? '; charset='.$default_text_plain_charset : '');
+	} elsif (! $filename) {
+		return 'application/octet-stream';
+	} elsif ($filename =~ m/\.png$/i) {
+		return 'image/png';
+	} elsif ($filename =~ m/\.gif$/i) {
+		return 'image/gif';
+	} elsif ($filename =~ m/\.jpe?g$/i) {
+		return 'image/jpeg';
+	} else {
+		return 'application/octet-stream';
+	}
+}
+
 sub git_blob_plain {
-	my $save_as = "$hash.txt";
+	open my $fd, "-|", "$gitbin/git-cat-file blob $hash" or return;
+	my $type = git_blob_plain_mimetype($fd, $file_name);
+	
+	# save as filename, even when no $file_name is given
+	my $save_as = "$hash";
 	if (defined $file_name) {
 		$save_as = $file_name;
+	} elsif ($type =~ m/^text\//) {
+		$save_as .= '.txt';
 	}
-	print $cgi->header(-type => "text/plain", -charset => 'utf-8', '-content-disposition' => "inline; filename=\"$save_as\"");
-	open my $fd, "-|", "$gitbin/git-cat-file blob $hash" or return;
+	
+	print $cgi->header(-type => "$type", '-content-disposition' => "inline; filename=\"$save_as\"");
 	undef $/;
+	binmode STDOUT, ':raw' unless $type =~ m/^text\//;
 	print <$fd>;
+	binmode STDOUT, ':utf8' unless $type =~ m/^text\//;
 	$/ = "\n";
 	close $fd;
 }
-- 
1.3.0
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  1. gitweb: safely output binary files for 'blob_plain' actionJakub Narebski, Jun 17, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisJun 17, 2006
  3. gitweb: text files for 'blob_plain' action without charset by defaultJakub Narebski, Jun 17, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisJun 17, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2006

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